At SBSTA 20 (FCCC/SBSTA/2004/6,
paragraphs 20-22), the SBSTA took note of the submissions by Parties (FCCC/SBSTA/2004/MISC.9
and Add.1), that
were requested for at SBSTA 19, as well as the information in the technical paper. Parties, at this
session, also agreed on specific topics for the workshop on HWP. The workshop was to take into
consideration the information contained in the submissions by Parties, in the Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines
and the IPCC good practice guidance for LULUCF.

The workshop on harvested wood
products took place in Lillehammer, Norway from 30 August to 1 September 2004. Fifty-nine
representatives of Parties and organizations attended the workshop. The objective of the workshop was
to increase the understanding of issues relating to HWP. Participants at the workshop discussed and
exchanged views on definitions and scope of estimation, reporting and accounting of HWP; methods for
estimation and reporting; and approaches for accounting of HWP and the socio-economic and environmental
implications of different approaches. A workshop report, FCCC/SBSTA/2004/INF.11
was considered by the SBSTA at its twenty-first session.

At the twenty-first session (FCCC/SBSTA/2004/13,
paragraphs 29-33), the SBSTA noted the need to further analyze the socio-economic and environmental
implications, impacts on forest carbon stocks and emissions in Annex I and non-Annex I Parties, impacts on
sustainable forest management, and impacts on trade, of reporting GHG emissions resulting from the
production, use and disposal of HWP, including those arising from the application of the accounting
approaches. These issues were to be further considered at SBSTA 23.

SBSTA 23 (FCCC/SBSTA/2005/10,
paragraphs 31-36) further considered methodological issues relating to the estimation of changes in carbon
stocks and GHG emissions from harvested wood products (HWP). Data and information on changes in
carbon stocks and emissions of GHG from HWP and experiences with the use of relevant guidelines and good
practice guidance of the IPCC to generate such data and information were submitted by Parties (FCCC/SBSTA/2005/MISC.9,
Add.
1 and Add.2), at
the request of SBSTA 21. In addition, the secretariat prepared an information note FCCC/SBSTA/ 2005/INF.7 presenting
information on HWP contained in previous submissions from Parties and in national inventory reports.
The SBSTA decided to continue the consideration of this item at its twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth
sessions.

At the request of some Parties during SBSTA 24 (FCCC/SBSTA/2006/5,
paragraphs 65-70), the planned consultations for the agenda item on HWP was merged with the consultations
for the agenda item on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) guidelines for national
greenhouse gas inventories (FCCC/SBSTA/2006/5,
paragraphs 59-64).

At this session, SBSTA invited Parties in a position to do so to voluntarily report on HWP in their
national inventories in a manner consistent with current UNFCCC reporting guidelines. The SBSTA
agreed to return to the consideration of this item at its twenty-sixth session under two separate context:

to
discuss reporting of harvested wood products in the context of its consideration of the 2006 IPCC
Guidelines; and